Pauline Randolph, a beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, joined the love of her life Wayne Randolph in heaven on April 21, 2025, passing away in her sleep at Lincoln Community Care Center in Hugo, Colorado. Born on March 7, 1930, the oldest child of Richard F. and Magdaline (Kreutzer) Brungardt, she grew up on a farm south of Hoxie with her siblings Almetha, Marcella, Paul, Marvin, Viola, Imogene, Mary, Leo, and Thelma.
After graduating from Monument High School in Monument, Kansas, Pauline attended Fort Hays State University for a year. Pauline spent time as a teacher (for a year), a doctor’s receptionist, a high school cafeteria cook, and a baby sitter.
On September 18, 1950, Pauline married Robert Wayne Randolph in Grainfield, Kansas. Together they raised four children, Richard, Robert, Dianna, and Cynthia in Hoxie and nurtured and loved eight grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. A woman of many interests she loved to bake (those M&M oatmeal cookies were to die for) along with crocheting and doing needlepoint. She loved polka dancing and dancing in general so much that she told Wayne when they were dating “if you want to be my boyfriend, you have to learn to dance.” So, he did, and they did— dance for the joy of it whenever the spirit moved them even on Sunday mornings.
Pauline (Polly to her friends and family) was known for being a good friend and coworker, her generous and kind heart, her infectious laugh, being the straight “man” for Wayne’s sense of humor, and being a very lenient grandmother to her eight grandchildren (oh, the shenanigans that went on in the basement of her home on Noble Street). Pauline and Wayne loved hosting and attending family reunions. Family was extremely important to her.
Pauline is survived by siblings Almetha Mendenhall, Imogene Thomas, and Mary Smith; her children Richard (Yvonne) Randolph of Surprise, AZ, Robert (Linda) Randolph of Hoxie, Cynthia (Jeff) Myers of Eads, and son-in-law Mike Matthews of Hoxie; her grandchildren Stacie Taylor, Shelley (Warren) Johnson, Ryan (Hanna) Randolph, Kelsey (Greg) Havran, Matthew (Sarah) Randolph, Christopher (Kathryn) Matthews, Candace Myers, and Adam Myers; 19 great grandchildren Josh (Ashli), Cayle (Jill), Peyton (Macy), Alexis (Danny), Macey, Gabriel, Chloe, Haven, Matthias, Jayden, Riley, Joe, Cambria, Caler, Emmylia, Linus Wayne, Hayden, Theodore, and Oliver; and 4 great great grandchildren Kadence, Harper, Jaxon, and Kendall.
Pauline is now reunited in heaven with her parents, her husband Wayne, her daughter Dianna Matthews, and her siblings Marcella Bullard, Paul, Marvin, Viola Jacobs, Leo, and Thelma Krallman who preceded her in death.
The visitation will be held from 3-7 at Mickey Leopold Funeral Home on Sunday, April 27 with Rosary to follow at 7. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, April 28, 2025, at 10:30, at St. Francis Catholic Church in Hoxie. Interment to follow. Memorials may be made to Sheridan County Benefit Walk or Sheridan County Historical Society and may be mailed in care of Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home, PO Box 987, Hoxie, Kansas 67740.